25th March
13.15–15.00 Public Lecture (Room MIS 3115)
Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)
“Writing Refugees into 20th Century Global History”
15.30–18.15 Workshop (Room MIS 0102)
15.30–16.45
Project Presentation by Marino Ferri (University of Lucerne)
“Making Refugee Students: Categorical Uncertainties in Switzerland after 1945, or, How ‘War Victims’ Became ‘Refugees’”
17.00–18.15
Project Presentation by Jonathan Pärli (University of Fribourg)
“Rightlessness and the Cause of the Other. Asylum Activism and Sanctuary in Switzerland and the United States 1973–1990”
26th March
09.00–12.00 Workshop (Room MIS 0102)
09.00–10.15
Text Discussion
Peter Gatrell, Refugees – What’s Wrong with History? In: Journal of Refugee Studies 30 (2016) 2, p. 170–189.
10.15–10.45 Coffee Break
10.45–12.00
Text Discussion
Peter Gatrell, Raw Material: UNHCR’s Individual Case Files as a Historical Source, 1951–1975. Work in progress – please don’t cite.